[Reader-users] Appeal to my contributers

Sun Mar 30 19:49:10 CDT 2008

I would have been more likely to respond to this if you had not decided that 
Obama was the Democratic nominee for President.  Janet Coleman
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>
> Hi to all of those who have yet to contribute to the march for 
> independence.
> This letter is designed to show how important your gift  really is now 
> more
> than ever.  Let me start with the Grim reality of the  situation 
> politically
> for the blind.  Hear in NJ, we are facing cuts and  very deep ones at that 
> in
> the commission for the blind.  Our summer camp  for one is being slashed 
> as
> part of a 17% cut in the commission's funding by a  governor who spent a 
> total of
> $100,000,000 for two elections to office, one of  which he didn't even
> finish.  a governor who after the first Mandated shut  down of the state 
> last year
> said on national television that he'd if necessary  spend his own money to
> prevent a summer camp for the blind from being shut  down.  To make up for 
> the
> shortfall, he's planning to lease the NJ  Turnpike, and raise our tolls on 
> it.
> and I haven't gotten to the highest  property taxes in our state's 
> history.  On
> the national front it's  worse.  Our federation along with the ACB the
> American counsel of the blind  who in many other situations doesn't agree 
> with us
> are fighting to both save the  Randolph shepherd program so that blind can 
> have
> both the honor and pribilige to  provide food service on Military bases, 
> and
> the upgrade to digital of the  talking book program.  What it all comes 
> down to
> is this.  Our  government is no longer listening to us and is not showing 
> any
> interest in Blind  affairs.  It's in both political parties.  On the
> republican side, The  Bush administration has allowed the closing down of 
> job line and
> America's job  bank, and 10 regional rehabilitation services offices, and 
> has
> dragged it's feet  on Randolph shepherd.  The Democrats have shown that 
> all
> they want to do is  hurt the administration by doing nothing hoping they 
> can
> blame bush for  everything and get elected.  The chair of the subcommittee
> overseeing  talking funding has said she'll give The Library of congress
> $12,500,000 for the  program this year and that's it.  We only got that 
> same amount last
> year  too.  We want $19,100,000 each of the next four years so that the
> program  can complete the transition away from cassettes in four years. 
> We are
> also  battling to get our books to Kids in school on time in an accessible 
> format
> to  be translated into Braille.  This isn't happening either and we are 
> also
> working on the issue of Silent cars so that blind people walking the 
> streets
> don't come to harm by getting hit by a car they can't hear or for their 
> canes
> getting run over.  Go to the federation website and listen to presidential
> release 360 for details.  find it on _www.nfb.org_ (http://www.nfb.org/) 
> And
> take the publications link and  then the presidential releases.  This 
> member
> of the federation is sick and  tired of his friends going down to 
> Washington
> over and over again and being told  yes we support you on the same issues 
> year
> after year.  This is also a  problem because the Sighted aren't being 
> listened
> to any more than the  blind.  Hear in NJ we're trying to save what I 
> mentioned
> above, and trying  to get more mobility instruction too.  I won't go into 
> the
> corruption here  in NJ that is the biggest reason of all why this is
> happening here.  Also  why a Recall petition has been started in Somersett 
> County.
> The point of  this is put simply, with your gift to the federation's march 
> for
> independence,  you can make a shout loud and clear to force the government 
> to
> listen to us and  to you too.  So please make that gift before May 31, and 
> help
> us become a  voice to loud to ignore.  I'm passionate about my work in the
> federation  being worth something so please make the gift today.  You can 
> send a
> message to Obama, Mccain, and all of congress that the blind aren't 
> talking
> to  hear ourselves talk.  We want to work, we want to contribute, we want 
> the
> earnings limit to be increased for SSDI so blind will have the motivation 
> to
> work, we want job line to be restarted, rehabilitation services restored,
> Digital talking books, cars that blind can hear, blind kids to get there 
> books
> on time, blind people to vote independently, and we want these things not
> tomorrow, but now!  Now!  Now!  We want the honor to provide food 
> services to
> our brave men and women who serve in our army, fighting for Freedom,  and
> fighting against the ones who want to kill all of us blind or sighted. 
> And we want
> it not tomorrow but Now!  Now!  Now!  You can help  the voice of the blind 
> be
> heard by letting yours be heard so please in our most  important time of 
> the
> blindness movement, as a proud member of the largest  organization of 
> blind
> people in America and maybe the world, raise your voice in  protest 
> against
> those who won't do the work of protecting rights and  freedoms.  Our 
> Governor
> quickly abolished the death penalty, showing he  cares more about the 
> rights of
> convicted killers than he does the blind and is  more interested in being 
> the
> president than actually doing the work of the  country, so till he's 
> recalled
> we'll just have to settle these issues.  The  two parties are to ocupide 
> with
> their own political aspirations like the  Governor of NJ, so show him and 
> them
> that they work for you not the other way  around.
> I pledge to  participate actively in the efforts of the national 
> federation
> of the blind to  achieve     equality, opportunity, and security for the
> blind; to support the policies and programs of the federation; and abide 
> by its
> constitution.
>
>
> I pledge to  participate actively in the efforts of the national 
> federation
> of the blind to  achieve equality, opportunity, and security for the 
> blind; to
> support the  policies and programs of the federation; and abide by its
> constitution.
>
>
>
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